Wanted: Featherweight bot

[Ocracoke]

As I say, it is the whole "building it yourself" process that is the reward for the investment plus you get to intimately know how your robot works. The drive electronics/mechanics are fairly simple to understand once you know the language that comes with it.

My original robot, The Honey Badger 1.0 used little more than a wooden garden planter from B&Q frame as a chassis, a aluminium lampshade as a shell, 2x eBay motors, 2x speed controllers from RC cars, 2x aeroplane model wheels, a castor ball and a remote control transmitter (and that was the most expensive single part of the entire thing).

If you ignore the spinning flail that came with it, it came to roughly £180 and that was with a special tank RC transmitter that was £90 because I didn't understand what mixing was. Now it didn't work very well and only went through one fight before being absolutely flattened but the point is that I learnt oh so much from doing it myself.

Refitting another robot with your own electronics isn't a bad idea in of itself and you really wanted to, you could just remove the axe... (controversial I know, I'd keep it in a heartbeat).